A DIRECTOR of a Hereford firm has overcome deafness and a serious accident to record victory in the National Veterans' 12-hour Championship in Cambridgeshire.
Terry Coging, a 61-year-old sales director at PMS Systems, Rotherwas, clocked up 262.823 miles in the event, a new national age group record, and beat reigning champion Brian Haskell by 10 miles.
Coging, who started racing at the age of 16, only got back on the saddle five years ago after a hit-and-run accident which hospitalised him with serious concussion and led to a 28-year break from the sport.
He is also deaf and can only hear following to a cochlea implant operation in 1998.
Coging has previously taken part in a gruelling Land's End to John O'Groats relay with his club Stafford Road CC.
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